Prospective Residents

In order to live at CSCC, at least one applicant must be one of the following:

• A degree seeking student
• A Postdoctoral Fellow (job code 9560) or Associate (job code 9546)
• A professional in training
• Medical or dental resident
• Employed under one of these job codes

Visiting scholars and Fulbright Fellowships are not academically eligible to live at CSCC.

Prospective residents must complete an online application and pay a $50 application fee. The application will require you to provide the following information:

• Name and contact information for all occupants
• The academic eligibility for the primary applicant
• Indication of ‘family’ or ‘individual’ applicant
• Desired move in dates
• Unit preferences

We only require one application to reserve a spot on the waitlist.

• For families: Only the UMN student or affiliate should submit an application
• For individuals: Students applying together as roommates should have the student with the highest priority eligibility should apply.

Suggestions for your application:

• Make a plan and apply early! Prospective residents may apply up to one year in advance.
• Be flexible on your desired move-in date. The waitlist increases between May and September.
• You may withdraw your application at any time.

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All new applications are placed on a waitlist. Applications are sorted in two categories, 1.) families or 2.) individuals and roommates. This will impact your waitlist placement.

Families:

• A student living with a spouse or registered domestic partner.
• An unmarried student with 50% or greater physical custody of a minor child.

Individuals:

• Individual students may live alone or with a roommate.
• If a resident chooses to add a roommate to their lease, the roommate does not have to meet academic eligibility requirements.
• The roommate must complete an application and receive approval from CSCC.
  CSCC does not assign or assist in placement of roommates.

Priority is given in this order:

• Undergraduate/Graduate families (married or domestic partners with or without children, single parents with children).
• Individual graduate students.
• Post doc families (married or domestic partners with or without children, single parents with children).
• Individual post doc students.
• Individual undergraduate students in their senior year.
• Individual undergraduate students in their junior year.

If you want to know where you are in the application pool, call the CSCC office at 612-378-2434 or e-mail at leasing@cscc.coop.

We will contact you via e-mail when your waitlist placement is selected. This e-mail will include an offer for an apartment. The offer will provide:

• The type of unit available
• Rental rate for the unit
• The move-in date.

You will have two business days to make your decision, so make sure you check your e-mail regularly

Once you have accepted the apartment offer, we will e-mail you details on your next steps. You will need to submit a security deposit (equal to one month’s rent) within seven days. The entire process is complete online, and you do not need to come in-person to complete the leasing process.

A cooperative is a business that is owned and democratically controlled by the members who use its services.

Residents may join the cooperative as a stockholder. Stockholders are responsible for cleaning their common hallway and walkway. Stockholders may also volunteer in the community, vote on business matters, and serve in organization governance.

Residents may opt-out of cooperative membership. Residents who opt-out pay a 10% fee in addition to monthly rent.

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